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Heart Eyes
ShowcaseIssue date: 4 Mar 2025Heart Eyes was filmed entirely in Auckland, New Zealand, with a production split of 35% in a studio setting (Mt Wellington warehouse) and 65% on location throughout Auckland CBD and greater Auckland, extending as far as Matakana. Auckland is an ideal...
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Wolf Man
ShowcaseIssue date: 25 Feb 2025100% shot in New Zealand Supported by the New Zealand Screen Production Rebate 650 prosthetics used New Zealand stood in for downtown San Francisco and rural Oregon...
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Future releases
ShowcaseM3GAN2 Predator: Badlands Klara and the Sun Chief of War The Wrecking Crew Avatar: Fire and Ash East of Eden
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Wolf Man
ShowcaseIssue date: 16 Jan 2025Wolf Man is a 2025 American horror film directed by Leigh Whannell from a screenplay he co-wrote with Corbett Tuck. A reboot of The Wolf Man (1941), the film stars Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner,...
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Heart Eyes
ShowcaseIssue date: 14 Feb 2025For the past several years, the “Heart Eyes Killer” has wreaked havoc on Valentine’s Day by stalking and murdering romantic couples. This Valentine’s Day, no couple is safe… Format Film Production companies Spyglass Media Group, Divide/...
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ASH
ShowcaseIssue date: 12 Mar 2025On a distant planet, a woman wakes up to find the crew of her space station has been killed. She must decide if she can trust the man sent to rescue her. Format Film Production companies XYZ Films, GFC Films, IPR.VC Director Flying...
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A Minecraft Movie
ShowcaseIssue date: 16 Apr 2025From Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures and starring Jason Momoa and Jack Black, “A Minecraft Movie,” directed by Jared Hess, is the first-ever big screen, live-action adaptation of Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time. Format...
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Spartacus: House of Ashur
ShowcaseIssue date: 16 Sep 2025The story is based on the assumption that Ashur did not die on Vesuvius in the denouement of the second season of the original fiction. Format Series Production companies DeKnight Productions, Starz Originals Created by Steven S....
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Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires
ShowcaseIssue date: 15 Oct 2025Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires is an upcoming American science fiction musical film. It is the fourth installment in the Zombies series, and is a sequel to the 2022 film, Zombies 3. It is scheduled to be released on Disney...
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Beyond Goodbye
ShowcaseIssue date: 6 Nov 2024This is the story of a woman who loses her fiancé in an accident and the man whose life he saved — a beautiful yet heartbreaking romance about two people at the mercy of fate that begins with a bittersweet "goodbye." Saeko (Kasumi Arimura) loses the...
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Under the Vines Season 3
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Dark City: The Cleaner
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Our Flag Means Death Season 2
ShowcaseIssue date: 25 Sep 2023Fast Facts 96% New Zealand crew 78% New Zealand cast Production based at Kumeu Film Studios Post-production took place in Auckland 10 New Zealand HODs...
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The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 10
ShowcaseIssue date: 6 Jun 2024From a brutal murder with a Jurassic twist to a spooky crime scene on the Day of the Dead, Brokenwood's alarming murder rate continues to keep detectives Shepherd (Neill Rea), Sims (Fern Sutherland), and Chalmers (Jarod Rawiri) busy. Format TV...
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Time Bandits
ShowcaseIssue date: 24 Jul 2024100 production days 120 sets built HPA nominated post-production Filmed in Wellington Time Bandits, the new Apple TV+ series, reimagines the beloved 1981 cult classic film...
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Sweet Tooth Series
ShowcaseIssue date: 6 Jun 2024About Shooting Season 3 Sweet Tooth, filmed its third season concurrently with the second season in New Zealand. This allowed the production team to maximize resources and maintain continuity in the show's captivating storyline and unique...
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Avatar: The Way of Water
ShowcaseIssue date: 5 Dec 2022(L-R): Ronal, Tonowari, and the Metkayina clan in 20th Century Studios' AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved. “I think what audiences can prepare themselves for is the...
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Time Bandits
ShowcaseIssue date: 31 Jul 2024An unpredictable journey through time and space with a ragtag group of thieves and their newest recruit: an 11-year-old history buff named Kevin. Together, they set out on a thrilling quest to save the boy's parents, and the world. Creators Jemaine...
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After the Party
ShowcaseIssue date: 31 Jul 2024Penny loses everything when she accuses her husband of a sex crime against her daughter's teenage friend, and no one believes her.
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Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
ShowcaseIssue date: 2 Aug 2024Adding a unique Kiwi touch to Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie was the music created by New Zealand's own The Phoenix Foundation and Tami Neilson. Their collaboration has brought an exciting and fresh sound to the movie, blending The Phoenix...
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Sweet Tooth Season 3
ShowcaseIssue date: 6 Jun 2024After defeating the Last Men, Gus, Jepperd, Singh, Becky and Wendy embark on a harrowing journey to Alaska in the hopes of finding Birdie, and to finally discover the truth about the origins of Hybrids and the Sick. Format Series Production...
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
ShowcaseIssue date: 15 May 20241,000 Wētā FX crew contributed to the film. 1,521 shots crafted, with only 38 devoid of visual effects. Thirty-three minutes of the film are entirely digital. Nearly one billion...
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Bad Behaviour
ShowcaseIssue date: 2 Nov 2023Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan. Format Film Production company Protagonist Pictures...
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Our Flag Means Death Season 2
ShowcaseIssue date: 1 Sep 2023Our Flag Means Death is based (very) loosely on the true adventures of 18th century would-be pirate Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby). After trading the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede became captain of the...
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Far North
ShowcaseIssue date: 23 Aug 2023Far North is a 6 x one-hour scripted series telling the (mostly) true story of how the most comically inept gang to ever join forces got half a billion dollars’ worth of meth to New Zealand shores – and nearly to market. And they would have got away with...
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The Tank
ShowcaseIssue date: 23 May 2023Luciane Buchanan and Matt Whelan in The Tank Fast facts 100% shot in New Zealand 16 New Zealand cast 75% New Zealand crew Shot in Auckland “As a kiwi coming home...
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The Tank
ShowcaseIssue date: 23 May 2023Oregon, 1978. Ben Adams and his wife Jules are in for a surprise when they inherit an abandoned coastal property that Ben’s recently deceased mother never told them about. Not knowing what to expect, the couple travel to the secluded home with their...
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Choose Love
ShowcaseIssue date: 31 Aug 2023Cami has it all, the perfect job and boyfriend but she feels that something is missing, and that feeling begins to grow when she meets Rex and an old love returns to her life. Format Film Production companies Netflix Producers Melanie Turner...
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The Gone
ShowcaseIssue date: 17 May 2023When a young Irish couple vanishes from a small town in the North Island of New Zealand, Irish Detective Theo Richter teams up with Kiwi Detective Diana Huia to find them. Starring Richard Flood and Acushla-Tara Kupe. Format TV Series...
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The Beatles: Get Back
ShowcaseIssue date: 25 Nov 2021The Beatles: Get Back is a Disney+ original docuseries from three-time Oscar-winning New Zealand Director Peter Jackson. Made entirely from never-before-seen footage restored at Park Road Post Production in Wellington. Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get...
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Evil Dead Rise
ShowcaseIssue date: 17 Apr 2023Fast facts 10 New Zealand cast 280 crew 6,500 litres of fake blood Shot in Auckland The iconic horror franchise returns with, Evil Dead Rise, written...
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Evil Dead Rise
ShowcaseIssue date: 20 Apr 2023Evil Dead Rise is a terrifying new instalment in the iconic horror franchise created by Sam Raimi in the 1980s. A new group of young people uncover the Necronomicon, inadvertently unleashing the mother of all evil. Moving the action out of the woods and...
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Sweet Tooth Season 2
ShowcaseIssue date: 27 Apr 2023As a deadly new wave of the Sick bears down, Gus (Christian Convery) and a band of fellow hybrids are held prisoner by General Abbot (Neil Sandilands) and the Last Men. Looking to consolidate power by finding a cure, Abbot uses the children as fodder for...
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Pearl
ShowcaseIssue date: 13 Sep 2022Fast facts 215 New Zealand crew. 9 New Zealand cast. 124 New Zealand extras. X, Pearl and Mr. Corman bundled under the NZSPG – International criteria. Written...
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Punch
ShowcaseIssue date: 30 Jul 2022Seventeen-year old Jim is a small-town boxing hero who carries the hopes and dreams of his father Stan on his shoulders. His growing relationship with local boy, Whetu, forces him to confront the truth about his sexuality, and choose his own future....
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Under the Vines Season 2
ShowcaseIssue date: 23 Feb 2023Under The Vines follows Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards as two unlikely city slickers who inherit a failing vineyard in rural New Zealand. Format TV Series Production companies Libertine Pictures, EQ Media Group, Hardy White Pictures...